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Riddles - Early works to 1800
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The masquerade, a collection of new enigmas logogriphs charades rebusses queries and transpositions
Date: 1800- Books
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The True trial of understanding: Or Wit newly reviv'd, being a book of riddles, adorned with variety of pictures, new riddles make both wit & mirth the price a penny, yet not half the worth. By S.M.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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The true trial of understanding: or wit newly reviv'd, being a book of riddles, adorned with variety of pictures, New Riddles make both Wit & Mirth The Price a Penny, yet not half the Worth. By S. M.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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The nuts crack'd; being an answer to the Court puzzle: or a choice collection of conundrums.
Date: 1745- Books
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Winter-evening entertainments; in two parts. Containing, I. Ten pleasant and delightful relations of many rare and notable accidents and occurences; with brief remarks upon every one. II. Fifty ingenious riddles, with their explanations, and useful observations and morals upon each. The whole enlivened with above threescore pictures, for the better illustration of every story and riddle. Excellently accommodated to the fancies of old or young, and exceeding useful to advance chearful society and conversation. By Robert Burton.
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1737